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Holstein Friesian, the Glossary

The Holstein Friesian is an international breed or group of breeds of dairy cattle.^[1]

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Allele

An allele, or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule.

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American Dairy Science Association

The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) is a non-profit professional organization for the advancement of dairy science.

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Artificial insemination is the deliberate introduction of sperm into a female's cervix or uterine cavity for the purpose of achieving a pregnancy through in vivo fertilization by means other than sexual intercourse.

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Batavi (Germanic tribe)

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

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Batavia (region)

Batavia is a historical and geographical region in the Netherlands, forming large fertile islands in the river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine (Dutch: Rijn) and Meuse (Dutch: Maas) rivers.

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Belmont, Massachusetts

Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Bovine somatotropin

Category:Livestock Category:Dairy industry Bovine somatotropin or bovine somatotrophin (abbreviated bST and BST), or bovine growth hormone (BGH), is a peptide hormone produced by cows' pituitary glands.

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Breed club

Breed clubs are associations or clubs with activities centered on a single, specific breed of a particular species of domesticated animal.

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Breed registry

A breed registry, also known as a herdbook, studbook or register, in animal husbandry, the hobby of animal fancy, is an official list of animals within a specific breed whose parents are known.

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Butterfat

Butterfat or milkfat is the fatty portion of milk.

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Cazenovia, New York

Cazenovia is an incorporated town in Madison County, New York.

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Channel Island cattle

Channel Island cattle is a collective name for the breeds of cattle developed in the Channel Islands located between England and France.

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means.

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Complex vertebral malformation

Complex vertebral malformation or CVM is a lethal hereditary syndrome found in Holstein cattle.

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Corporate Watch

Corporate Watch (The Corporate Watch Co-Operative Ltd.) is a research group based in the UK.

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Crossbreed

A crossbreed is an organism with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations.

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Culling

Culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics.

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Dairy cattle

Dairy cattle (also called dairy cows) are cattle bred with the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made.

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Dairy farming

Dairy farming is a class of agriculture for the long-term production of milk, which is processed (either on the farm or at a dairy plant, either of which may be called a dairy) for the eventual sale of a dairy product.

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Dairy Shorthorn

The Dairy Shorthorn is a British breed of dairy cattle. Holstein Friesian and dairy Shorthorn are cattle breeds and dairy cattle breeds.

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David Low (agriculturalist)

David Low FRSE (23 November 1786 – 26 January 1859) was a Scottish agriculturalist.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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East Frisia

East Frisia or East Friesland (Ostfriesland;; Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Elanco

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated is an American pharmaceutical company which produces medicines and vaccinations for pets and livestock.

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Embryo transfer

Embryo transfer refers to a step in the process of assisted reproduction in which embryos are placed into the uterus of a female with the intent to establish a pregnancy.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Fodder

Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.

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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids.

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Foundation stock

Foundation stock or foundation bloodstock refers to animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a breed or of a given bloodline within such.

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Frances Osborne Kellogg

Frances Eliza Osborne Kellogg (May 11, 1876 – September 26, 1956) was an American industrialist, dairy farmer, and philanthropist.

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Friesland

Friesland (official Fryslân), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.

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Frisia

Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.

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Frisians

The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark, and during the Early Middle Ages in the north-western coastal zone of Flanders, Belgium.

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Frisii

The Frisii were an ancient tribe, living in the low-lying region between the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and the River Ems, sharing some cultural and linguistic elements with the neighbouring Celts.

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Gene

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

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Genesee River

The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.

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German Black Pied cattle

German Black Pied cattle are a breed of dairy cattle that originated in the North Sea coast regions of northern Germany and the Netherlands. Holstein Friesian and German Black Pied cattle are cattle breeds originating in Germany and dairy cattle breeds.

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Gestation

Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).

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Gray, Maine

Gray is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

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Greifswald

Greifswald, officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: Griepswoold, Kashubian: Grifiô) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg.

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Groningen (province)

Groningen (Grunn; Grinslân) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands.

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Guernsey

Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen), officially the State of Hesse (Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.

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Holderness

Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England.

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Holland Land Company

The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of thirteen Dutch investors from Amsterdam,Kirby, C.D. (1976).

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Holstein Association USA

The Holstein Association USA is the world's largest dairy breed association.

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Hudson Valley

The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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Inbreeding

Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically.

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Jersey

Jersey (label), officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France.

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John Lincklaen

John Lincklaen (24 December 1768 – 9 February 1822) was the founder of Cazenovia, New York.

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Kian (bull)

Kian (11 June 1997 – 2013)"", top agrar, June 28, 2013 (accessed December 19, 2014) was a red-and-white (Holstein) breeding bull.

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Lactation

Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young.

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List of cattle breeds

Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. Holstein Friesian and List of cattle breeds are cattle breeds.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Livestock dehorning

Dehorning is the process of removing the horns of livestock.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Meuse

The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Mohawk Valley

The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains, northwest of the Capital District.

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Monsanto

The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

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New Netherland

New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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North Holland

North Holland (Noord-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Outcrossing

Out-crossing or out-breeding is the technique of crossing between different breeds.

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Ox

An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.

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Pauline Wayne

Pauline Wayne was a Holstein cow that belonged to William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States.

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Phenotype

In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.

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Piebald

A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales.

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Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes.

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Poll (livestock)

The poll is a name of the part of an animal's head, alternatively referencing a point immediately behind or right between the ears.

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Polled Holsteins

Polled Holsteins are cattle born without horns but only occur in a small portion of Holstein cattle. Holstein Friesian and Polled Holsteins are cattle breeds.

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Polled livestock

Polled livestock are livestock without horns in species which are normally horned.

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Production (economics)

Production is the process of combining various inputs, both material (such as metal, wood, glass, or plastics) and immaterial (such as plans, or knowledge) in order to create output.

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Progeny testing

Progeny Testing is a test of the value for selective breeding of an individual's genotype by looking at the progeny produced by different matings.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Punnett square

The Punnett square is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment.

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Purebred

Purebreds are like cultivars of an animal species achieved through the process of selective breeding.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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River Tees

The River Tees, in England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea in the North East of England.

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Roman army

The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.

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RORA Elevation

Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation (born 1965, often abbreviated RORA Elevation), was one of the most influential artificial insemination Holstein/Friesian bulls of the last century.

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Saint-Hyacinthe

Saint-Hyacinthe (French) is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River.

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Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein (Slesvig-Holsten; Sleswig-Holsteen; Slaswik-Holstiinj; Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.

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Selective breeding

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

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Silage

Silage is fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation to the point of souring.

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Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)

The Sun Journal is a newspaper published in Lewiston, Maine, United States, which covers central and western Maine.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Total mixed ration

Total mixed ration (TMR) is a method of feeding beef and dairy cattle.

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Toystory (bull)

Toystory (May 7, 2001 – November 27, 2014) was a Holstein bull who sired an estimated 500,000 offspring in more than 50 countries around the world.

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Ubre Blanca

Ubre Blanca (c. 1972–1985) was a cow in Cuba known for her prodigious milk production.

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Udder

An udder is an organ formed of two or four mammary glands on the females of dairy animals and ruminants such as cattle, goats, and sheep.

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Université de Montréal Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Faculté de médecine vétérinaire) at Université de Montréal is one of five veterinary medical schools in Canada.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Waal (river)

The Waal (Dutch name) is the main distributary branch of the river Rhine flowing approximately through the Netherlands.

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Weathersfield, Vermont

Weathersfield is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.

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West Friesland (region)

West Friesland (West-Friesland) is a contemporary region in the Northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

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Wilsondale Farm

Wilsondale Farm is a dairy farm in Gray, Maine, United States.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yearling

Yearling may refer to.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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Zuiderzee

The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands.

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Zygosity

Zygosity (the noun, zygote, is from the Greek "yoked," from "yoke") is the degree to which both copies of a chromosome or gene have the same genetic sequence.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstein_Friesian

Also known as Brachyspina syndrome, British Friesian, Friesian (cattle), Friesian Holstein, Friesian cattle, Friesian cow, Friesian cows, Frisian cow, Holstein (cattle), Holstein Fresian cattle, Holstein Friesian (cattle), Holstein Friesian cattle, Holstein Friesians, Holstein Frisian, Holstein breeders, Holstein cattle, Holstein cow, Holstein-Friesian, Holstein-Friesian cattle, Red Holstein, Red Holstein (cattle), Trina Holstein.

, Humber, Inbreeding, Jersey, John Lincklaen, Kian (bull), Lactation, List of cattle breeds, Livestock, Livestock dehorning, Maine, Massachusetts, Meuse, Michigan State University, Mohawk Valley, Monsanto, New Netherland, New World, North Holland, North Sea, Outcrossing, Ox, Pauline Wayne, Phenotype, Piebald, Polder, Poll (livestock), Polled Holsteins, Polled livestock, Production (economics), Progeny testing, Prussia, Punnett square, Purebred, Rhine, River Tees, Roman army, RORA Elevation, Saint-Hyacinthe, Schleswig-Holstein, Selective breeding, Silage, Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine), The Wall Street Journal, Total mixed ration, Toystory (bull), Ubre Blanca, Udder, Université de Montréal Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Venice, Waal (river), Weathersfield, Vermont, West Friesland (region), Wilsondale Farm, World War II, Yearling, Yorkshire, Zuiderzee, Zygosity.

Holstein Friesian, the Glossary

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See also

Cattle breeds originating in Germany

Cattle breeds originating in the Netherlands

Dairy cattle breeds

References